My ideal school

1. Find out odd words.

My ideal secondary school it is a safe haven. It shouldn’t be a place you are hate going to, but
a place where you enjoy attending. I believe it should be social, as well as educational experience.
A school should always been have a soul… there should always be laughter ringing through the
corridors. (Angela, 15, Moscow)
1________________2___________________3_______________4________________
2. Fill in the gaps with proper words.
My ideal school is a school quite unlike 1 _____ school we’ve heard of. This school consists of
a large library and basic recreational facilities. 2____ are no classrooms. The school is built 3 _____
the idea of active learning. No student is forced 4 _____ learn. (Tanya, 14, Rome)
3. Use a proper derivative.
School is the mould, which shapes our future. It’s where we spend most of our 1. (VALUE)
time — 2 (CHILD). Yet I know from firsthand experience that many aspects should be changed:
the 3 (PERSON) attitude of some teachers who do everything only for results, instead of creating
happy moments and valuable life experience for young people. These young people are far from
being an ‘empty pot’ who are ready to be filled with 4. (KNOW). They are 5. (SIMPLE) locked
boxes full of potential which should be discovered by caring and 6. (ENCOURAGE) teachers.
(Anna, 15, Riga)
4. Fill in the gap with a proper preposition where it is necessary.
Schools may be getting good results but they are not helping the students as individuals. It seems
1. ___ me that it’s the learner who should ask 2. ___ questions. Give us the freedom to ask questions
and do help 3. ___ us to find answers. Don’t you see we learn more 4. ___ our experience and when
people trust and respect 5. ____ us? We learn from our mistakes as well. (Hero Joy, 14, Kent)

My ideal school
1. Find out odd words.
My ideal secondary school it is a safe haven. It shouldn’t be a place you are hate going to, but
a place where you enjoy attending. I believe it should be social, as well as educational experience.
A school should always been have a soul… there should always be laughter ringing through the
corridors. (Angela, 15, Moscow)
1________________2___________________3_______________4________________
2. Fill in the gaps with proper words.
My ideal school is a school quite unlike 1 _____ school we’ve heard of. This school consists of
a large library and basic recreational facilities. 2____ are no classrooms. The school is built 3 _____
the idea of active learning. No student is forced 4 _____ learn. (Tanya, 14, Rome)
3. Use a proper derivative.
School is the mould, which shapes our future. It’s where we spend most of our 1. (VALUE)
time — 2 (CHILD). Yet I know from firsthand experience that many aspects should be changed:
the 3 (PERSON) attitude of some teachers who do everything only for results, instead of creating
happy moments and valuable life experience for young people. These young people are far from
being an ‘empty pot’ who are ready to be filled with 4. (KNOW). They are 5. (SIMPLE) locked
boxes full of potential which should be discovered by caring and 6. (ENCOURAGE) teachers.
(Anna, 15, Riga)
4. Fill in the gap with a proper preposition where it is necessary.
Schools may be getting good results but they are not helping the students as individuals. It seems
1. ___ me that it’s the learner who should ask 2. ___ questions. Give us the freedom to ask questions
and do help 3. ___ us to find answers. Don’t you see we learn more 4. ___ our experience and when
people trust and respect 5. ____ us? We learn from our mistakes as well. (Hero Joy, 14, Kent)
 5. Translate the words in brackets.
I think differences make the world 1. (ВРАЩАТЬСЯ). Good teachers know it 2. (БОЛЬШЕ)
than Maths rules. I think school 3. (ДОЛЖНА) teach differences. And at the moment 4.
(НЕКОТОРЫЕ) schools are doing the opposite, trying to make 5. (ВСЕХ) normal. (Kate, 13,
London)
6. Do such a complex task)))) Derivatives, translation, missing words
Schools should develop 1. (CREATIVE) and dreams. When schools teach people 2. ____ to seek
knowledge on 3. ____ own, people become passive. 4. (ВСЕ) has the right to be free and choose
what to be and what 5. ____ to be, schools do not give that option, they have a ‘well organised’
systematic life for you, in which you 6. (ВЫНУЖДЕНЫ) fit. (Luis, 15, Boston)
7. Answer the questions.
1. What do the children want to change at school? __________________________________
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2. Why do the children want more freedom? ________________________________________
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3. What is an ideal school for you? ?__________________________________________________
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5. Translate the words in brackets.

I think differences make the world 1. (ВРАЩАТЬСЯ). Good teachers know it 2. (БОЛЬШЕ)
than Maths rules. I think school 3. (ДОЛЖНА) teach differences. And at the moment 4.
(НЕКОТОРЫЕ) schools are doing the opposite, trying to make 5. (ВСЕХ) normal. (Kate, 13,
London)
6. Do such a complex task)))) Derivatives, translation, missing words
Schools should develop 1. (CREATIVE) and dreams. When schools teach people 2. ____ to seek
knowledge on 3. ____ own, people become passive. 4. (ВСЕ) has the right to be free and choose
what to be and what 5. ____ to be, schools do not give that option, they have a ‘well organised’
systematic life for you, in which you 6. (ВЫНУЖДЕНЫ) fit. (Luis, 15, Boston)
7. Answer the questions.
1. What do the children want to change at school? __________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
2. Why do the children want more freedom? ________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
3. What is an ideal school for you? ?__________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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